Massachusetts
Federal agencies obligated $94.1 billion for work performed in Massachusetts in fiscal year 2026, ranking 19 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $94,094,015,412
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 19 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $13,185.50
- Divided by 7,136,171 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $94,094,015,412 divided by 7,136,171, the 2024 resident population estimate from U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA). It is dollars of federally obligated work recorded in Massachusetts per resident. It is not federal money received by residents, and it is not a payment anyone receives.
Largest agencies
| Rank | Agency | Obligations | Share of state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Department of Health and Human Services | $35,806,618,586 | 38.1% |
| 2 | Social Security Administration | $30,437,286,663 | 32.3% |
| 3 | Department of Defense | $12,914,384,747 | 13.7% |
| 4 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $3,620,441,999 | 3.8% |
| 5 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $3,192,698,938 | 3.4% |
| 6 | Department of Agriculture | $2,574,613,680 | 2.7% |
| 7 | Department of Transportation | $1,801,827,958 | 1.9% |
| 8 | Department of Education | $1,463,430,573 | 1.6% |
| 9 | Department of Homeland Security | $550,885,592 | 0.6% |
| 10 | National Science Foundation | $376,143,056 | 0.4% |
| 11 | Department of the Treasury | $316,164,664 | 0.3% |
| 12 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $161,928,102 | 0.2% |
| 13 | General Services Administration | $139,149,303 | 0.1% |
| 14 | Department of Labor | $111,622,876 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Environmental Protection Agency | $109,622,419 | 0.1% |
The 15 largest of 46 agencies with obligations here. Massachusetts accounts for 2.0% of the $4,725,719,515,020 that carries a place-of-performance state.
What this page cannot show
- Place of performance is the location the recipient reported. A contract recorded here may be performed, subcontracted, or spent elsewhere.
- These are obligations recorded in the period, not outlays and not money received by residents or by the state government.
- A per-resident figure divides work performed in a state by the people who live there. The two are not the same population, and a state with a large federal installation or contractor will rank high without its residents receiving that money.
Related
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Largest agencies here
Sources
- USAspending API v2 — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved 2026-09-18apps/web/queries/spending/states_by_federal_awards.sql, apps/web/queries/spending/state_agencies.sql
- U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA) (population denominator) — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work, public domaintransforms/seeds/census_state_population.csv
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